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The projected chance that a specific business type lasts two or more years at a specific address.
Most people choose a location on rent, on a walk-through, and on a feeling about foot traffic. Those are the things you can see standing on the sidewalk. What you cannot see is whether that block has actually supported your kind of business over time, or whether the businesses that lasted there were a different kind entirely.
That question is answerable before a lease is signed, and it is what this research covers for Washington DC.
Across 129 ranked Washington DC neighborhoods, the projected chance of lasting two or more years at a good address runs from 54.5% to 85.6% for Day Care Center, a spread of 31.1 percentage points, and from 66.0% to 83.6% for Massage Therapy, a spread of 17.6, the narrowest fully measured range in Washington DC (section 3 says what that means). The address matters more for one than for the other.
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| Business type | Good-address range across ranked Washington DC neighborhoods | Spread | How Washington DC ranks (of 22 metros compared) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day Care Center | 54.5% to 85.6% | 31.1 pp | #9 of 22 metros |
| Watch Store / Repair | 53.5% to 84.6% | 31.1 pp | #9 of 22 metros |
| Music Store | 54.0% to 84.6% | 30.6 pp | #9 of 22 metros |
| Home Goods Store | 54.8% to 84.6% | 29.8 pp | #8 of 22 metros |
| Home Improvement | 54.8% to 84.6% | 29.8 pp | #9 of 22 metros |
A range is fully measured when neither end draws on a scored location sitting at the highest or lowest figure the national file gives that business type in Washington DC. 11 of the 129 business types ranked across Washington DC neighborhoods qualify. A range that reaches either limit is measured only up to that limit, so it could be wider than it prints, and it is left out of this table.
| Business type | Good-address range across ranked Washington DC neighborhoods | Spread | How Washington DC ranks (of 22 metros compared) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massage Therapy | 66.0% to 83.6% | 17.6 pp | #8 of 22 metros |
| Dentist | 71.7% to 89.6% | 17.9 pp | #8 of 22 metros |
| Physical Therapy | 71.7% to 89.6% | 17.9 pp | #8 of 22 metros |
| Acupuncture | 70.9% to 89.6% | 18.7 pp | #10 of 22 metros |
| Dermatology | 70.9% to 89.6% | 18.7 pp | #9 of 22 metros |
| Psychiatrists & Psychologists | 70.9% to 89.6% | 18.7 pp | #10 of 22 metros |
Business types that share every figure in a row are shown together, never cut by name.
| Business type | Washington DC at a good address | Typical address | How Washington DC ranks (of 22 metros compared) | Against the top other metro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cafe | 83.5% | 71.2% | #3 of 22 metros | level |
| Coffee Shop | 83.5% | 70.7% | #3 of 22 metros | level |
| Convenience Store | 84.1% | 70.4% | #4 of 22 metros | behind by 0.4 pts |
| Bar | 83.1% | 71.3% | #4 of 22 metros | behind by 0.9 pts |
| Laundromat | 83.1% | 67.4% | #5 of 22 metros | behind by 0.9 pts |
Across 129 ranked Washington DC neighborhoods, U Street Corridor and 3 others share the top figure, 84.4% projected two-year survival at a good address; the file ranks U Street Corridor first of them (83.2% at a typical address). Tara-Leeway Heights ranks last, at 60.9% (54.7% at a typical address).
Averages hide the thing that matters. A single block can beat an entire neighborhood's ranking. Use the neighborhood view to narrow a search, not to rule an area out.
The model is trained on 570,000+ historical business outcomes across 24 U.S. metros and weighs 100+ location factors. The most important number in a location decision is our proprietary Revenue Capture Score: the revenue a business can capture at that address, from its projected market share against forecasted local spend. StreetSpring scores 500+ business types: 153 base business types, most of them at 5 price points, which is 569 type-and-price combinations you can choose in the tool. The figures on this page come from the published files, which carry one figure per base business type, averaged across its price points.
Data version 2026.10.05 (as of 2026-10-05). Geographic scope: the Washington DC metro area, 140 neighborhoods. "At a good address" is the 90th percentile of a neighborhood's scored locations, the figure the files rank on; ranks against other metros count the 22 metros compared, in the national file's own order.
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